Renee Collins Cobb

Renee Collins Cobb serves as partner and EVP, Strategy and Business Development for Dreamland Entertainment Group as well as co-president and co-owner of Listen Locally, LLC with her husband Warren Cobb.  Listen Locally is a leadership consulting, media, and broadcasting group.  She is co-owner of SCRIBE TV Network and She also serves the Executive Director/Founder of Room 17 Productions, a nonprofit organization that promotes music education through storytelling, oral history, live performance and preservation of aging recordings to digital format.  

In addition, Renee has more than thirty years experience in the fields of organizational effectiveness, leadership development, diversity and inclusion, music business and professional development.  She serves as an executive coach, organizational effectiveness consultant, WUKY DEIB board member, facilitator, presenter, on air personality, podcast host, radio show producer and team development coach.
She is a 1984 graduate of the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education and a 1994 graduate of Xavier University with a Master’s Degree in Executive Human Resource Development.  She attended The UK College of Fine Arts on a full music scholarship to study piano and music education.  She performed with the University of Kentucky Chorus and Choristers serving as both an accompanist for the Chorus and rehearsal pianist for Lexington Philharmonic Concerts.   Renee became a concert pianist and accompanist for many vocalists at The University of Kentucky.

Renee is also the host and co-executive producer of Overtones LIVE, an award winning radio show, that airs on Radiolex since 2018 and has received international recognition and honors for its presentation of music from the Kentucky and Appalachian Regions in a multi-generational, multi-cultural, and multi-genre format and platform.  

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

• Nexstar Media Group Remarkable Women Winner – Central Kentucky 2023
• Stevie Awards Bronze Winner, 2023 Female Executive of the Year for Room 17 Productions
• Stevie Awards Bronze Winner, 2023 Female Thought Leader of the Year for Room 17 Productions
• Stevie Awards Gold Winner, 2024 Media and Entertainment Company of the Year for Listen Locally
• Stevie Awards Bronze Winner 2024 Thought Leadership of the Year for Listen Locally
• The Josie Music Awards Winner, 2022 Media Company for Audio Visual Excellence for Overtones LIVE
• The Josie Music Awards Winner, 2023 Live Production Videography of the Year for Overtones LIVE/ Listen Locally
• The Josie Music Awards Winner, 2024, Radio Show of the Year for Overtones LIVE
• The Hollywood Independent Music Awards, Best Live Performance Videography 2023
• The Appalachian Arts and Entertainment Awards, Best Short Documentary Film 2023
• The Lexington Music Awards, Music Business of the Year 2020, 2023 and 2024
• The Lexington Music Awards, Critics Choice, 2022
• LM Communications Outstanding Woman of Central Kentucky, 2024
• Lexington Action Council, Unapologetic Women of Central Kentucky Honoree 2024
• Public Media Journalism Association, WUKY – First Place, Interview Podcast Category

MEMBERSHIPS

• The Hollywood Independent Music and Media Awards
• Alliance for Women in Media
• Americana Music Association
• Country Music Association – Industry/ Professional Member

Renee is formerly a training consultant for The Office of Institutional Diversity at The University of Kentucky and for Cook-Ross, Inc, a global industry leader in the areas of diversity and inclusion.  Renee’s current work as a keynote speaker and change agent provides clients with a focus and facilitation in the areas of career management, diversity and inclusion and leadership development.  This line of work has allowed her to take her presentations to many Fortune 500 organizations, corporate, state and federal government, health care and institutional sectors.

Renee also encourages people to “listen locally” through storytelling serving as the project manager for several global education initiatives for the University of Kentucky Louie B Nunn Center for Oral History with topics telling the stories of The University of Kentucky Cheerleading Squad, The Dr. Sara Holroyd Story, The Greg Austin Story, I Am Diversity and Women of Color in Medicine.  

Renee served as both Host and Director of Media Services at Red Barn Radio and currently serves as Host and Executive Producer of “Overtones LIVE” – a live music performance radio show and podcast as well as  “Gray Matters: Opening Minds – One Thought at a Time” –  a show that focuses on stories of diversity, inclusion and equity as well as the topic of unconscious bias.  She also is the host and executive producer of the TV Show “Remarkably Purposed” on SCRIBE TV Network.